NEW DELHI: India is fencing and installing floodlights on the Indo-Pak border at a fast pace, and Home Minister Shivraj Patil is leaving for a two-day visit to Gujarat and Rajasthan to inspect the pace of work, according to a Home Ministry spokesman.
The spokesman said here on Friday that of the 310 kilometres of the international border in Gujarat to be fenced and floodlit, 207 kilometres had been fenced and flood lights had been set up along 178 kilometres.
He said the union home minister was inspecting border outposts in the two states, and Patil would also inspect work on border fencing in the Bhuj district of Gujarat. The fencing is part of IndiaÂ’s ambitious project to seal its entire 1,800-mile border with Pakistan.
Even as India embarks on a peace process with Pakistan, expedited work on fencing the border with Pakistan is in progress. The spokesman said that at most places, fencing along the Line of Control had been repaired. The construction of fences began in the late 1980s in the state of Punjab. |